The 4th of July! The Independence Day!
... For Franky this 4th of July is not really an Independence Day. In the following I'm going to explain why...
The Piersons (except the mother, of course) are spending the 4th of July in the Blounts' lodge. The Blounts are multimillionaires with spoiled children, who have their private zoo where they put the animals in cages without taking care of them. Samantha and Franky feel sorry for the animals and they free them! Independence Day! BUT this action had a big consequence for Franky. Her father wanted her to apologize for her behavior but she didn't. So her father lost control and shook her so hard, in front of everybody, that her body was hurting even a couple of days later. "Damn you. I'm telling you. Apologize to these people, Francesca, or I'll break every bone in your miserable body!" To my mind this is doesn't sound like a caring father like Franky always thinks of her father. Maybe this incident will open her eyes and she finally realizes that her father is not right in the head.
I really like the metaphor the author uses for showing Frankys dependence on her father through the Independence Day. But I think that Franky is on the right way: "Seeing the raccoons lumber away in the woods. Seeing the hare shaking free of his trance [...] Yes, you have to accept punishment sometimes for doing what is right." This is very true. This statement could also be referred to Frankys' Mom. She left her husband because she is afraid of him but as a punishment she is leaving her daughters behind and she has to live with the thought that her husband controls his daughters and tells them that she doesn't love her children. I think that Franky also would like to be let free like those animals in the cages. Franky knows how they feel because she is caught in a cage or like she would say in a "mausoleum" that her father calls a house and her father could be one of the Blount brothers poking a stick at her and not taking care of her. He just keeps her in the house to keep up the appearance of a happy family. To her father she is just like a decoration without feelings, which he likes to show to his so often changing "girlfriends".
There was a statement, which I really liked and I just wanted to mention it here. "[...] And you carry it with you wherever you go, like a turtle with a crooked shell." Here she is referring to her parents' divorce. I really like this simile and wanted to post it here to remember it.
The Piersons (except the mother, of course) are spending the 4th of July in the Blounts' lodge. The Blounts are multimillionaires with spoiled children, who have their private zoo where they put the animals in cages without taking care of them. Samantha and Franky feel sorry for the animals and they free them! Independence Day! BUT this action had a big consequence for Franky. Her father wanted her to apologize for her behavior but she didn't. So her father lost control and shook her so hard, in front of everybody, that her body was hurting even a couple of days later. "Damn you. I'm telling you. Apologize to these people, Francesca, or I'll break every bone in your miserable body!" To my mind this is doesn't sound like a caring father like Franky always thinks of her father. Maybe this incident will open her eyes and she finally realizes that her father is not right in the head.
I really like the metaphor the author uses for showing Frankys dependence on her father through the Independence Day. But I think that Franky is on the right way: "Seeing the raccoons lumber away in the woods. Seeing the hare shaking free of his trance [...] Yes, you have to accept punishment sometimes for doing what is right." This is very true. This statement could also be referred to Frankys' Mom. She left her husband because she is afraid of him but as a punishment she is leaving her daughters behind and she has to live with the thought that her husband controls his daughters and tells them that she doesn't love her children. I think that Franky also would like to be let free like those animals in the cages. Franky knows how they feel because she is caught in a cage or like she would say in a "mausoleum" that her father calls a house and her father could be one of the Blount brothers poking a stick at her and not taking care of her. He just keeps her in the house to keep up the appearance of a happy family. To her father she is just like a decoration without feelings, which he likes to show to his so often changing "girlfriends".
There was a statement, which I really liked and I just wanted to mention it here. "[...] And you carry it with you wherever you go, like a turtle with a crooked shell." Here she is referring to her parents' divorce. I really like this simile and wanted to post it here to remember it.
Vocabulary: belly flop (inf.) Bauchklatscher to look slantwise at sb. to look at sb. out of the corner of one's eye
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